Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. It’s an instantly quotable adage from Banksy, but what does it actually mean? Can a line be drawn between outright political propaganda and the canvases hanging in every hip gallery in London?
Puccini’s Turandot was “the end of the great tradition” of Italian opera. Ever popular, it is the grandest of them all, and yet it is deeply problematic. Set in a mythical China, at its simplest the tale concerns a Prince, Calaf, who wins the heart of the Princess of China, Turandot.
Richard Hamilton. Father of pop art, experimenter of consumer design, right? If that is all you associate with this icon of twentieth century British art, this massive retrospective at the Tate will change your mind.
Is science emotional? Clara Clark Nevola interviews theatre maker Tom Espiner about the play Going Dark to find out
Disclaimer: do not book tickets for this as a February blues pick-me-up. The poster’s colourful, the title’s promising, but the only comedy you’ll get it the bleakest of tragicomedy.
Yes the biggest event of the union calendar has arrived. And I don’t mean the Big Elections. ArtsFest sees our scientists’ paradise turned over to our Artistic under culture for a week of something different.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that London is the place to be for everything arts related...
The Friday Lates are, much as the name suggests, a series of exhibitions that take place on a Friday night, specifically the last Friday of each month.
Fred Fyles goes underground as part of the Waterloo Vaults Festival
With the latest revelation from Thomas Hitzlsperger, and Tom Daley’s recent announcement that he is in a gay relationship, the topic of high profile sportsman and homosexuality is currently much discussed.
As I sat down in my plush theatre seat, tucking my kiddy school bag under my legs, I suddenly felt very small.
Fred Fyles gets a glimpse of the works of Warhol, Burroughs and Lynch
